PIX4674038: Hurricane Felix seen since ISS 09/2007 - Hurricane Felix seen over Cuba by members of Expedition 15 of the International Space Station. 3 September 2007. This view of Hurricane Felix was taken from the Earth - orbiting International Space Station (ISS) by an Expedition 15 crewmember using a digital still camera equipped with a 28 - 70 mm lens set at 32 mm focal length on Sept. 3, 2007 at 11:39:56 GMT. The ISS was located at the nadir point of 20.4 degrees north latitude and 80.4 degrees west longitude, over Pickle Bank, the waters between Grand Cayman Island and Cuba. At approximately noon GMT, Hurricane Felix was near 14.2 degrees north latitude and 76.9 degrees west longitude, about 260 miles (425 kilometers) south of Kingston Jamaica, and 425 miles (685 kilometers) east of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/Honduras border, moving west at 21 miles per hour (33 kilometers per hour). The sustained winds were 165 miles per hour with higher gusts making it a category 5 on the Saffir - Simpson scale / Bridgeman Images
PIX4674128: Hurricane Ike seen by satellite 09/2008 - Hurricane Ike above Cuba 09/2008 - Hurricane Ike seen over Cuba on 7 September 2008. Image obtained by the American satellite Aqua. Just an hour and a half after this image of Hurricane Ike was captured by the MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite on September 7, 2008, the National Hurricane Center released its 2:00 p.m. EDT public advisory, warning residents of Cuba and other Caribbean islands, as well as the Florida Keys, that Ike was a dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with winds near 135 mph (215 kilometers per hour), with higher gusts. The image shows Ike approaching eastern Cuba, the eye just west of Great Inagua Island (one of the Turks and Caicos Islands). According to later advisories, Ike made landfall as a Category 3 storm, with winds around 125 miles per hour. Heavy rains were predicted to cause deadly floods and mudslides in mountainous parts of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Cuba / Bridgeman Images
PIX4674309: Hurricane Hugo seen by satellite - Hurricane Hugo seen by satellite - Perspective view of Hurricane Hugo on September 21, 1989. Image obtained from the GOES-7 satellite. Perspective view of Hurricane Hugo on 21 September 1989 at 14:44 EDT by GOES - 7 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites), as the hurricane approaches Charleston, South Carolina. See also our full - earth view of Hugo. Image produced by F. Hasler, K. Palaniappan, M. Manyin, and H. Pierce (NASA/Goddard) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4674492: Thunderstorms seen from space shuttle Discovery in April 1991 - Thunderstorms seen from space shuttle Discovery in April 1991 - Thunderstorms over the Indian Ocean seen by space shuttle Discovery on 30 April 1991. Thunderstorms above Indian ocean seen from the space shuttle Discovery on April 30 1991 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4675492: Argyle Diamond Mine - Australia - Argyle Diamond Mine - Australia: The Argyle Diamond Mine is a mine located in the Eastern Kimberley region of northern Australia. It is the largest diamond mine in the world in volume terms, although due to the low proportion of quality diamonds, it is not a leader in value. Image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on 22 June 2006. The Argyle Diamond Mine is a diamond mine located in the East Kimberley region in the remote north of Western Australia. Argyle is the largest diamond producer in the world by volume, although due to the low proportion of gemquality diamonds it is set to close by 2020. Image taken from the international space station on June 22 2006. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4675665: Rose Atoll - American Samoas - Rose Atoll - American Samoa - The Rose Atoll in the American Samoas archipelago, seen in August 2006 from the International Space Station (ISS). Rose Atoll or Rose island, is an uninhabited wildlife refuge in american Samoa. It is the southermost point in the United States. Astronaut photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) in august 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4675760: Glacier Viedma, Argentina - Viedma Glacier in Argentina - The Viedma Glacier in Argentina, observed from the International Space Station on January 10, 2004. This detailed view was taken with an 800 mm lens from the International Space Station on 10 January, 2004. The image shows the lower end of the Viedma Glacier that flows into Lake Viedma, one of three major glacially formed lakes on the Patagonian side of the southern Andean ice sheet, at 50 degrees South. The image reveals the slender dark lines of rock material (moraine) which is carried in the slowly flowing ice. Lighter lines at right angles are patterns of crevasse. The glacier diverges into two lakes where calved icebergs can be seen floating in the lakes. The glacier here is about 1.8 km wide / Bridgeman Images
PIX4675872: Deforestation in Brazil - 2000 - Deforestation in Brazil - 2000 - View of deforestation in Rondonia, one of the Brazilian states where deforestation is the most intensive. In 1978, deforestation covered 4200 square km of the state, in 1988 about 30,000 square km and in 2003 about 67,000 square km. Image obtained by Terra satellite on 30 July 2000. The Amazon forest appears in green, the areas deforested in light colours. The state of Rondonia in western Brazil is one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. In the past three decades, clearing and degradation of the state's original 208,000 square kilometers of forest (about 51.4 million acres, an area slightly smaller than the state of Kansas) has been rapid: 4,200 square kilometers cleared by 1978; 30,000 by 1988; and 53,300 by 1998. By 2003, an estimated 67,764 square kilometers of rainforest - - an area larger than the state of West Virginia - - had been cleared. Here is a satellite image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite taken on July 30, 2000. Intact forest is deep green, while cleared areas are tan (bare ground) or light green (crops, pasture, or occasionally, second - growth forest) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4709157: Opera Garnier, 8 rue Scribe, Paris 9. Architecture by Charles Garnier, 1862-1875. The Opera or the National Academy of Music and Dance represents the best architectural expression of the Napoleon III style, eclectic, baroque, overload. It was following the failed attempt to attack the Emperor on January 14, 1858 by Orsini, that it was decided to build a new opera in a space and on. Photograph 1993. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4709192: Opera Garnier, 8 rue Scribe, Paris 9. Architecture by Charles Garnier, 1862-1875. The Opera or the National Academy of Music and Dance represents the best architectural expression of the Napoleon III style, eclectic, baroque, overload. It was following the failed attempt to attack the Emperor on January 14, 1858 by Orsini, that it was decided to build a new opera in a space and on. Photograph 1993. / Bridgeman Images